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Johnson, Josephine Winslow was born on June 20, 1910 in Kirkwood, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Benjamin H. and Ethel (Franklin) Johnson.
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Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties. The novel moves through a single year and, at the same time, a decade of years, from the spring arrival of the family at their mortgaged farm to the winter 10 years later, when the ravages of drought, fire, and personal anguish have led to the deaths of two of the five. Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by strong feelings of love and hate that, unexpressed, lead inevitably to doom. Reviewers in the thirties praised the novel, calling its prose "profoundly moving music," expressing incredulity "that this mature style and this mature point of view are those of a young women in her twenties," comparing the book to "the luminous work of Willa Cather," and, with prescience, suggesting that it "has that rare quality of timelessness which is the mark of first-rate fiction."
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(Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island remains a...)
Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island remains a powerful and relevant story about a woman, the farm she loves, and the gradual invasion of an increasingly mechanized society. This encore edition offers a lyrical celebration of the ever-changing life of the land and spiritual reminder that nature should be preserved.
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Johnson, Josephine Winslow was born on June 20, 1910 in Kirkwood, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Benjamin H. and Ethel (Franklin) Johnson.
Student, Washington University, St. Louis, 1933; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Washington University, St. Louis, 1970.
Shortly thereafter, she published Winter Orchard, a collection of short stories that had previously appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The Saint Louis Review, and Hound & Horn. Johnson was born June 20, 1910, in Kirkwood, Missouri. She wrote her first novel, Now In November, while living in her mother"s attic in Webster Groves, Missouri.
She remained on her farm in Webster Groves and completed Winter Orchard in 1935.
She published four more books before marrying Grant G. Cannon, editor in chief of the Farm Quarterly, in 1942. The couple moved to Iowa City, where she taught at the University of Iowa for the next three years.
They moved to Hamilton County, Ohio in 1947, where she published Wildwood. Johnson had three children: Terence, Ann, and Carol.
The Cannons continued to move beyond the advancing urban sprawl of Cincinnati, finally settling on the wooded acreage in Clermont County, Ohio, which is the setting of The Inland Island.
In 1955, Washington University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. She published four more books before her death, from pneumonia, on February 27, 1990, in Batavia, Ohio, at age 79.
( Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer ...)
(Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island remains a...)
(Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island remains a...)
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Daughter of Benjamin H. and Ethel (Franklin) J. M. Grant G. Cannon, April 5, 1942 (deceased 2969). Children– Terence, Jane Ann, Carol Lynn.